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33 Cards in this Set
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Social deviance |
Any transgeneration of society established norms |
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Crime |
The violation of laws enacted by Society |
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Social cohesion |
A social Bond how will people relate to each other and get along on a day-to-day basis |
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Mechanical or segmental solidarity |
Social cohesion based on sameness |
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Organic solidarity |
Social cohesion based on difference and Independence of the parts |
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Social control |
Mechanisms that create normative compliance in individuals |
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Formal social sanctions |
Mechanisms of social control by which rules or laws prohibit deviant Behavior |
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Informational social sanctions |
The usually expected widely known rules of group membership the unspoken rule of society life |
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Social integration |
How will you are integrated into your Society group or community |
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Social regulation |
The number of rules guiding your daily life and more specifically what you can responsibly expect the world on a day-to-day basis |
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Egoistic suicide |
Suicide that occurs when one is not well integrated into a social group |
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Altruistic suicide |
Suicide that occurs when one experiences too much Social integration |
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Anomie |
A sense of aimlessness or despair that arise when we can no longer responsibly expect life to be predictable too little social normlessness |
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Anomic suicide |
Suicide that occurs as a result of insufficient social regulation |
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Fatalistic suicide |
Suicide that occurs as a result of too much Social regulation |
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Strain theory |
Robert Merton's theory that deviance occurs when a Society does not give all of the members equal ability to achieve social acceptable goals |
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Conformist |
Individual who accepts both the goals and strategies to achieve them that are considered socially acceptable |
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Ritualist |
Individual who rejects Society Defined goals but not the means |
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Innovator |
Social deviant who accepts socially acceptable goals but rejects socially acceptable means to achieve them |
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Retreatist |
One who rejects both social acceptance means and goals by completely retreating from or not participating in society |
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Rebel |
Individual who rejects both traditional gold and traditional means and wants to alter or destroy the social instruction from which he or she is alienated |
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Labeling Theory |
The belief that individuals subconsciously notice how others see or label them and their reaction to those labels over time from the base of their self identity |
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Primary deviance |
The First Act of rule-breaking that may incur a label of deviant and thus influence how people think about and act toward you |
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Secondary deviance |
Subsequent Act of rule-breaking that occurs after primary events and as a result of your new deviant label and people's expectations of you |
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Stigma |
A negative social label that not only changes others Behavior towards a person but also Alters that person's self concept and social identity |
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Broken windows theory of deviance |
Theory explaining social context and social Coos impact whether individuals Act deviantly specifically weather local informal social norms allow deviant act |
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Street crime |
Committed in public and often associated with violent gangs and poverty |
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White collar crime |
Offense committed by a professional or professionals against a corporation agency or other Institution |
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Corporate crime |
A particular type of white collar crime committed by the officers CEOs and other exclusives of a corporation |
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Deterrence Theory |
Philosophy of Criminal justice arising from the notion that crime results from a reaction calculation of its costs and benefits |
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Recidivism |
When an individual who has been involved with the criminal justice system reverts to criminal Behavior |
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Total Institution |
An institution in which one is totally immersed and that controls all the basic of day-to-day life no barriers exist between the usual spheres of daily life and all activity occurs in the same place and under the same single Authority |
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Panopticon |
A circular building composed of an inner ring and outer ring designed to serve as a person in which the guards housed in the inner ring and observe the prisoners without the detainees knowing whether they are being watched |
